Something that I just figured out but doesn't help me really or maybe it will, is that I can type the address of the LibreELEC PC webserver and the port into my laptop browser (linux), login and control the LibreELEC PC from there. So from that point of view it works but it would be so handy to get the android apps to work. Any suggestions? Whenever I try this on an android device or iphone in the browsers it just says unreachable. Why does it let a laptop connect over wifi but not a mobile device?
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I have tried everything that was suggested by Ai and hunting posts similar to my problem. I have all the settings in Kodi set to connect remotely. I have allowed the remote control of Kodi via HTTP, I have allowed the control of Kodi from applications on this system and applications on other systems. I have the correct username and password and port. I changed it to 8081 on both and it still wouldn't let me connect.
The PC is an old Pentium G4560 with 16gb ram in a Silverstone HTPC case. I want to have this in my hifi stack so I won't be using a screen or mouse/keyboard to control it so I really need this to work. I am able to SSH into the PC and actually had to in order to save the ALSA settings on my sound card. But when I run the android apps it doesn't even detect it. I even input the MAC address to connect but still fails. I presume the router is not the problem because I can connect from a laptop. I tried 3 different android devices and all are on the same network. I'm using the latest stable version of the LibreELEC.
Something odd that happened might be important or give someone a clue to fix this. I run the android app and it searches for the media centre and nothing is found. I can do this forever and it finds nothing. I did reboot the PC one time and then after it rebooted the android apps are able to find it! It appears in the list if the apps are searching just after it reboots and when I click to connect it doesn't connect. And then when I search again nothing...until I reboot again. I've been at this for about 12 hours and my head is wrecked, it took me hours just to get the sound working after a reboot. Now this. Are there any logs or error messages I can look at? The usual thing on screen is Could not connect to Kodi...
Sorry if I am rambling and raving but like I said this is important to me. So far the LibreELEC journey has been awkward but I had fun remotely logging in to the PC and storing the ALSA settings and what not. This is the reason i use Linux all the time. It gives a great sense of achievement when you do something like this and when I got the sound working consistently it felt so good. I have a Xonar Essence STX II card in there and believe me the sound coming out of it is something else. Jaw-dropping in fact and so this setup, LibreELEC so fast and responsive and the sound quality top notch is perfect, now just to be able to control it without a monitor and mouse/keyboard and it might be perfect.